On 24 April 2025, political scientist Pawan Kumar Sen will defend his PhD dissertation, "Transforming Nepal’s Political System: Party Positions and Public Opinion (2004-2012)," at Leiden University. His research examines how Nepal’s major political parties navigated key state restructuring reforms—republicanism,…

Daniela Vicherat Mattar (PhD European University Institute) convenes the Culture, History and Society major. Trained as a sociologist, her research focuses on cities, citizenship and, more recently, care. She’s interested in how dominant ideas about belonging translate in urban forms and infrastructures…

Caroline L. Bokhorst is teaching coordinator of the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

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Anna Marhold is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. Her specialization is international economic law, with a particular focus on international trade law at the intersection of energy and environmental regulat…

Jens Iverson is an assistant professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, (Law Faculty, Leiden University) a position he has held since 2014.

Joop van Holsteijn is professor in Political Behaviour and Research Methods at the Institute of Political Science.

Professor Willemien den Ouden is Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden Law School and a Research Fellow of the E.M. Meijers Institute of Legal Scientific Research (one day a week). She is also a State Councillor at the Administrative Jurisdiction Division at the Dutch Council…

Thea Coventry has been a staff member of the Grotius Centre since 2016, as a PhD candidate and lecturer.

Kate Kirk is Programme Leader Diversity and Inclusion at the Leiden University Centre for Professional Learning (CPL). She has a PhD and more than a decade of experience in academic education and research. In her research she made use of multilevel analysis of migration and integration policies and…

Kohei Suzuki, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Administration contributed to the research project ‘Reforming Public Administration in Libya’. The brainstorming meeting was organized by the Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC) in T…

In her dissertation, political scientist Alessia Aspide explores how public attitudes toward fiscal policy are formed. Her key finding: fiscal preferences are not shaped in a vacuum, but are deeply embedded in institutional, political, and societal contexts.

Yung Lin’s research explores how citizens in Taiwan and Southeast Asia actively shape public diplomacy, build trust across cultures, and address identity-based conflicts, highlighting the shift from government-led to citizen-centred diplomacy.

The first year students of Bachelor Security Studies finished their final block with the course Integrated Project 1. As part of the programme's teaching philosophy ‘Explore, Understand, Do’, students were required to combine the knowledge and understanding they’d gathered throughout their first year,…

Prof. Dr. Nico Schrijver is emeritus Professor of Public International Law at Leiden Law School.

At the start of the new year, we celebrate the release of a new selection of collection items into the Public Domain. This year, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) is making approximately eight hundred items freely downloadable via Digital Collections.

Jelle Brands (1985) works as assistant professor at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Patrick van der Meij (1978) is professor by special appointment of Criminal Law Practice and a partner and criminal defence lawyer at law firm Cleerdin & Hamer Advocaten in Amsterdam. He studied Dutch law from 1996 to 2001 at Leiden University specialising in criminal and criminal procedural law.

Pieter Slaman is Leiden University's university historian, with support of the A.E. Cohen Foundation. He is also a specialist in the history of education. His book ‘De glazen Toren. De Leidse Universiteit 1970-2020’ covered the institutional and cultural developments at Leiden university since the 1…

Finance

Barend Barentsen, Professor Labour Law, talked about the local public transportation strikes in the Netherlands with Omroep Gelderland.

Dr Melanie Fink is Associate Professor of European Law at Leiden University. Her research explores the intersection of digital public administration and EU law from an individual rights perspective. She is particularly interested in administrative justice in the automated state, accountability and access…

Carlotta Rigotti and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga have published a new article that offers an insightful and critical literature review on fairness and AI in the labour market as part of the BIAS project.